Endangered
Socorro Towhee
Pipilo socorroensis
Socorro Towhee is a perching bird in the family Passerellidae (order Passeriformes) — Pipilo socorroensis, recorded as Endangered and tied to Mexico.
The perching bird
Perching birds: the largest bird order. A species may be a babbler, a sparrow, a manakin, or a leafbird.
This is a named wild bird with a photograph and a threat category on the public record.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Socorro Island in the Eastern Pacific, part of the Revillagigedo Archipelago.
GBIF currently lists 226 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Perching birds hold with three toes forward and one back. A named island starling or leafbird in this catalog is a wild population, not a cage type.
In crisis
Socorro Towhee is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the German Wikipedia article on Socorrogrundammer, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q31873691 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
